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Contents 1 October 11, 2006 2 July 16, 2006 3 May 20, 2006 4 March 17, 2006

[edit] October 11, 2006

...that Gioventù Fascista ("Fascist Youth"), an Italian Fascist youth oriented newspaper, was founded on the 12th anniversary of the foundation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento the precursor of the National Fascist Party?

[edit] July 16, 2006

...that Jessica Mitford was an ardent communist and Anti-Fascist despite the fact that her sisters Diana Mitford (wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the BUF) and Unity Mitford were famous fascist supporters?

[edit] May 20, 2006

...that Michele Bianchi was the first secretary of the Italian National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista), which was the party founded by Benito Mussolini that united the various fasci movements.

[edit] March 17, 2006

...that the term fascist is derived from the fasces lictoriae ("bundles of the lictors") (in Italian, fascio littorio) which symbolised power and authority (imperium) in ancient Rome.